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L. LINDELUF! APPARATUS FOR PAYING OUT MONEY.

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N0. 6|9,32l Patented Feb. 14, I899. L. LINDELUF. APPARATUS FOR PAYING OUT MONEY.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

LEONARD LINDELGF, OF HELSINGFORS, FINLAND.

APPARATUS FOR PAYING OUT MONEY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 619,321, dated February 14, 1899.

Application filed January 10, 1898- Serial NO- 6661Z1Z- (N0 model-l To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEONARD LINDELoF, magister of philosophy, a citizen of the Grand Dukedom of Finland, and a resident of 25 Constantinsgatan, Helsingfors, Finland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Paying Out Money, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in coin sorting or delivering apparatus; and the object of the invention is to provide a device of this character in which the depression of the desired keys sets the apparatus for the delivery of certain coins and the operation of a separate lever orhandle delivers the coins for which the device has been thus set.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section through the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan view with part of the lid removed, and Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section.

The coins are carried in suitable hoppers a, corresponding in number and size to the various denominations of coins for which the apparatus is to be used. Slots are provided at the lower ends of these hoppers, through which ejecting-slides c are adapted to reciprocate to eject the bottom coins of the piles contained within the hoppers. Beneath the slides and transversely thereof is j ournaled a shaft d, upon which is loosely mounted a series of arms or levers 2', each of which has its upper end in engagement with one of the slides. These levers or arms are adapted to be separately coupled to the shaft by the mechanism hereinafter described, and when so coupled the depression of the barf at the front of the apparatus acts through intermediate mechanism, as hereinafter more fully described, to rock said shaft 01 and through the connected arms z' to reciprocate the desired ejecting-slides to eject the desired coin.

In order to effect the coupling of the desired arms 'iwith the shaft d, I provide bushes j, which are longitudinally movable upon the shaft and are provided with a key Z, engaging a corresponding key seat or groove in the shaft. This key Z projects from the bush and is adapted by the movement of the bush to be engaged with and disengaged from a corresponding groove in the arm i. A plurality of horizontally-disposed spring-pressed rods m are provided parallel with the shaft d and corresponding in number to the bushes on the shaft d, and each of these rods is connected by an arm n with one of the bushes, the end of the arm entering a circumferential groove in the bush, so that said bush can rotate without interrupting the connection. The rods are preferably triangular in cross-section, as shown in Fig. 1, and are held normally pressed toward the right (see Fig. 2) by springs, so as to hold the bushes out of engagement'with the levers i.

Beneath the rods m and n and transversely thereof are journaled a corresponding number of shafts 0, each of which is provided with a rigidly-connected arm 3, which engages a notch or recess y in one of the rods m, so that on the rocking of a shaft 0 the corresponding rod 111 will be moved against the tension of its spring. At the front of the apparatus are provided a series of vertically-movable keyrods q, carrying keys r on their upper ends, the key-rods being connected with theshafts 0 by arms p, rigidly connected with the shafts and having a pivotal connection with the key-rods. Springs i) tend to hold the keys normally elevated.

It will thus be observed that the depression of certain keys will operate through the intermediate mechanism above described to connect certain of the bushes j with the shaft, so that on the rotation of the shaft the slides will be operated to eject the corresponding coins. The bar f is connected by arms e to a rock-shaft c,arranged longitudinally beneath the shaft d, with which it is connected by a lug e engaging a corresponding lug e on the shaft 01. The shaft dis held in normal position by an arm g, pressed upon by a suitable spring h, as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

In order to hold the keys depressed, and thus retain the bushes j in coupling position while the slides are being operated, I provide locking-slides z, having elongated recesses, through which the key-rods pass and the edges of which are adapted to engage notches w in the key-bars, the slides being pressed into such locking positions by springs 2. In order to release the keys to permit them to return to normal position, a lever to is provided, adapted to be operated by-theshaft'd, so that when the ejecting-slides have been operated the locking slides will be moved against the tension of their springs to release the keys.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A coin counting or delivering apparatus comprising a pluralit'y'of hop ers, ejectin g- 1 slides adapted to eject the coins therefrom,

means for operating said slides normally di'sas described.

' connections with the slides, means for 'con= nectingone or more of the arms -rigidly with the shaft and means for rocking the shaft, substantially as described.

4. In combination, the pl'urality of'hoppers,

' the ej ectin g-slides the'refor,-the shaft arranged transversely of said slides,arms loosely journaled on said shaft a'nd'connected each toa corresponding slide, longitudinally-movable bu'sheskeyed to saidshaft and adapted to engage the arms to lock them to the shaft, means for moving one or more of said bushes, and means for rotating the shaft, substantially as described.

5. In-combi-nation, the plurality of hoppers, the ejecting-slides, the rocking sh aft arranged transversely of said slides, arms loosely journaled on said shaft and engaging the slides, a plurality of keys corresponding to the hoppers, connections from said keys whereby the depression of a key couples a corresponding arm to the rocking shaft, an operating-handle for rocking said shaft, spring-pressed locking-slides adapted to engage the depressed keys to hold them depressed,-an'd means connected With-said slides whereby the operation of the operating-handle releases the locking-slides, substantially as described.

6. In combination the plurality of hoppers, the ejecting-slides therefor, the rock-shaft arranged transversely thereto, arms loosely mounted on said shaft'and operatively connected with theslides, bushes keyed to said shaft and-adapted to be-moved longitudinally thereof to engage the arms to lock them to the shaft,-a'spri'ng-pressed slide connected with each bushya rocking shaft connected with each Slidefa key having a connection witheach rock-shaft for rocking the same, and means 'foro'perating the transverse shaft to reciprocate the connected slides, substantially *as described.

In testimony that I 'claim the foregoing as my invention I=havesigned myname, in presenceof two Witnesses, this 20th day of December, 1897.

LEONARD LINDELOF.

Witnesses:

HENRY H ASPER, 'GHAS. H. DAY. 

